Text to speech engines for Windows

[Mark Swindell]

When I was investigating this a couple of months ago I felt that ATT  
had the most natural speech.  But the cost was prohibitive for what I  
was doing.

Mark

On Sep 15, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Bob Earp wrote:

> What's the best English text to speech engine for Windows?  I see  
> there are ones from Microsoft, WinSpeech, Lernout & Hauspie, AT&T, and  
> maybe others.
>
> Are there others for Spanish, Portuguese and French ?
>
> Also, through searching I see references to SAPI 4.0, SAPI 5.0 and  
> SAPI 5.1 (I assume) standards for these engines.  Are there any  
> problems associated with a particular version and a release of Windows  
> ?
>
> Tnx, Bob...
>
> Bob Earp - White Rock, BC
>
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